Interview with Douglas Valentine. After a stint in the Santa Monica Police Department, and a two-year hitch with the Office of Naval Investigations, Salmi joined the FBN in April 1962, serving in Los Angeles. Salmi was put in charge of the FBN’s office in Istanbul in 1966. Salmi joined the DEA’s Internal Security unit in 1976 and conducted a controversial investigation into the CIA’s MKULTRA Program.